an agreement is a written and signed legal contract couples make before getting married dealing with property and support issues
What is a prenuptial agreement?
100
The Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act allows for a proxy marriage which is when one or both people involved in the marriage cannot be present, such as but not limited to military members
What is a proxy marriage?
100
It is a certificate that is issued by either a city, county or state government that gives a couple permission to marry.
What is a marriage license?
100
When one spouse has sexual relations with someone outside of the marriage
What is adultery?
100
The fee paid to an insurance company in return for the insuring of property and casualty insurance and life and health insurance to individuals or businesses.
What are premiums?
200
Marriage is not just a personal thing, it is also a type of contract of which there is an offer and an acceptance
Is getting engaged to be married a type of contract?
200
Bigamy is an illegal act that involves a person has two spouses at the same time. Polygamy is an illegal act of having more than two spouses at the same time.
What is the difference between bigamy and polygamy?
200
Most states require a period of time before the actual marriage license is issued.
Are waiting periods mandatory?
200
It can be either physical or mental cruelty or both in some cases
Is cruelty physical or mental?
200
disability income insurance provides monthly benefits to a disabled wage earner to reimburse the wage earner’s income during a period of total or partial disability.
What is disability insurance?
300
Yes it does change a couples legal status. Marriage gives a couple new rights that are not afforded a couple that is only living together.
Does getting married change a couple’s legal status?
300
during the early colonial times, only formal ceremonial type marriages that were performed by a religious cleric or a legal magistrate were recognized. However today couples must declare that they are married in front of any person that is legally licensed or authorized to perform marriages.
Do marriages have to be performed in a church or by a religious cleric?
300
Some states require blood tests in order to screen for infectious diseases such as AIDS, sexually transmitted sieges, sickle cell anemia, Rubella and infectious tuberculosis.
What reasons would a state require a blood test or physical exam?
300
an agency relationship that is created because the principal approved of an agents unauthorized action after the action occurred.
What is Agency by ratification
400
an informal type of marriage created by the parties themselves
What is a “common-law marriage”?
400
Consanguinity means that your are related by blood. Affinity means you are related by marriage
What are the differences between consanguinity and affinity?
400
The legal age to get married in almost every state is 18 years old
Does anyone know what the N.C. legal age is?
400
Child support is total support for a child or children by both parents. The finances of each parent are considered but each must contribute something in the way of money.
Does child support consists of just monetary support?
400
An individual or company who, through a contractual agreement, undertakes to compensate specified losses, liability, or damages incurred by another individual
Who is an insurer?
500
Presently, covenant marriage is required in Arkansas, Arizona and Louisiana for the purpose of attempting to reduce the number of divorces as well as protecting children
Do all states require a covenant marriage?
500
U. S. citizens that are legally married in a foreign country will normally have their marriage recognized in the U. S. as long as the marriage was legal in the country they were married in.
If an American couple gets married in England, Spain or Germany are their marriages legal in the United States?
500
It is a court judgment that ends the right to cohabitate or live together.
What constitutes a legal separation?
500
State law determines how marital property is distributed.
How is marital property distributed?
500
An agent that is given the authority to perform a variety of tasks